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“The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.”
Ethel Barrymore
“The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.”
Albert Einstein
“If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.”
Jimmy Buffett
“To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing.”
Oscar Wilde
“you can doubt anythingif you think about it long enoughcuz what happened always adjusts to fit what happened after that”
Ani Difranco
“No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.”
A. A. Milne
“Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“Doubt can only be removed by action.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe